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Title: Green Point lighthouse, Cape Town 1950
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Labour, Historic buildings, Shipping
Description: Workmen were today painting vivid bands of yellow, black and white on the Green Point Lighthouse to make it more easily distinguishable.
Identifier: islandora:17402

Title: The S A Railways building on the Foreshore, Cape Town, 1959
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, Building
Description: Cape Town Foreshore: S. A. Railway Building.
Identifier: islandora:17433

Title: Political protests, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, Politics
Description: Political protests, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17713

Title: Anti-drug protests, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations
Description: Anti-drug protests, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17738

Title: St. Mary's Catholic Cathedral, Cape Town, 1981
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Yesterday marked the 130th anniversary of the dedication of St Mary's Cathedral and after Solemn High Mass, His Eminence Owen Cardinal McCann, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cape Town, braved the rain together with Monsignor C G Watkins (on the archbishop's left), the Rev Father Rodney Hall (on his right) and the choir to pose for the Cape Times outside the cathedral.
Identifier: islandora:17296

Title: New printing press for the Cape Times, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Press, Southern African Newspapers, Printing presses
Description: The new R300,000 printing press which is to be installed in the Cape Times building in Burg Street. It is expected that it will be in operation before the end of the year. The new press is capable of producing a 32 page newspaper, four pages of which will take three superimposed colours, and four other pages which will take one superimposed colour. This picture was taken at Hoe & Crabtree's works in London where the press was assembled and test run prior to shipment.
Identifier: islandora:16047

Title: Pig and Whistle, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Bars (Drinking establishments), Restaurants
Description: Pig and Whistle, Rondebosch, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16624

Title: Police try to contain a protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, South African Police
Description: Police try to contain a protest, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17880

Title: Sentry box at the Castle, Cape Town, 1954
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Castle of Good Hope (Cape Town, South Africa), Environment, Architecture
Description: One of the sentry boxes at the gateway to the Castle, Cape Town, is slowly being broken up by the huge East Indian rubber-type tree which shades the entrance. The picture shows the damage done to one wall of the box.
Identifier: islandora:17096

Title: Walking the Black Sash gauntlett, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Demonstrations, Women, Political activists, Black Sash (Society)
Description: Former Prime Minister D F Malan passes through a gauntlet of silent Black Sash protestors on the way to the Nationalist Party Congress in Cape Town, 1955.
Identifier: islandora:16870

Title: Policemen climb out of their truck after a tear gas canister went off, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Weapons, Law enforcement
Description: Policemen tumble from a Casspir after a teargas canister was accidentally triggered in the vehicle at Steenberg yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16234

Title: View from the Railway building, Foreshore, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historical, Roads, Urban development, City planning
Description: View from the new Railway building, Foreshore, Cape Town, 1959
Identifier: islandora:17374

Title: Man inspects his shattered windscreen, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South African Labour Party, Politics, Motorcars, Vandalism
Description: Man inspects his shattered windscreen, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15964

Title: Pulpit in the Groote Kerk, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Religion
Description: Groote Kerk pulpit : the magnificent pulpit inside the Groote Kerk, Adderley Street, which is among the finest pieces of wood carving in South Africa. The pulpit was installed on November 29, 1789. It was the work of Anton Anreith, the sculptor and a carpenter, Jan Jacob Graaff, who shared between them the fee of £400 for executing this job. Graaff's share was £280 and Anreith's £120. The best Indian wood, brought from the Dutch East Indian Company was used. A black anchor symbolising Hope hangs from the lectern. The pulpit rests on two lions. Anreith had intended it to rest on models of Faith, Hope and Charity but his plan was rejected by the Kerkraad. On hearing this, Anreith is reported as saying "What do people here know of art forms? All they know about is lions and tigers". So lions were chosen for the base of the pulpit.
Identifier: islandora:17151

Title: Participants in Buffalo Rally from Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Motorcycles, Apartheid, Recreation, Transport
Description: Grease for peace, says "Mad" Morgan Moodley, as his loaded "Black Wing" rumbles through Cape Town en route for the Buffalo Rally in Maseru. With him is Yolanda Julius and they are flying the flag of the Freedom Riders Motorcycle Club - as slightly modified Stars and Stripes.
Identifier: islandora:16897

Title: Archaeological finds, Golden Acre site, Cape Town, 1975
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Water, Archaeology, Building, Urban development
Description: The old Heerengracht stream which flowed through this brickwork watercourse has been re-routed above the underground pedestrian walkway.
Identifier: islandora:17496

Title: Not eligible to vote because of his race, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Apartheid, Elections
Description: Say yes for me: Though not eligible to vote in yesterday's referendum because of his skin colour, this man made it quite clear where his sympathies lay.
Identifier: islandora:18063

Title: Day of the Covenant ceremony at Groote Schuur Estate, Cape Town
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Afrikaner Nationalism, Apartheid, Memorials, Culture, Religion
Description: A crowd of about 400 people attended the Day of the Covenant ceremony at the Groote Schuur Estate in 1976, including numerous women in Voortrekker costume. The service was led by Dr A. J. G. Dreyer. Professor D. J. Kotze, of the faculty of history at the University of Stellenbosch, was the main speaker.
Identifier: islandora:16649

Title: Unfinished highway, Cape Town City
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Land, Urban development, Infrastructure, Transport
Description: Tthe western approach from Green Point above the Buitengracht intersection.
Identifier: islandora:15120

Title: Holocaust memorial service, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Memorials, Veterans, Jews, Holocaust, Jewish, (1939-1945), Religion
Description: Remembering those who died in the Holocaust, 1994
Identifier: islandora:16647

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